Delightful Duty?
Dictionary.com defines delight as the following:
1. a high degree of pleasure or enjoyment; joy; rapture: She takes great delight in her job.
2. something that gives great pleasure: The dance was a delight to see.
–verb (used with object)
3. to give great pleasure, satisfaction, or enjoyment to; please highly: The show delighted everyone.
–verb (used without object)
4. to have great pleasure; take pleasure (fol. by in or an infinitive): She delights in going for long walks in the country.
I am challenged to really get pumped, joy-filled and pleased only by God's Word. His Word never lies so we must be able to enjoy His Word like it says we can and be blessed by it too. So many things want to take our time (such as the internet) away from the Word of God but I know we must fight for joy. The question still remains "Am I delighting in and finding pleasure in the Word of God like I should be?" Maybe we can't conjure up this joy ourselves, this necessary delight and we must ask the Lord for hunger and thirst for Himself so that we can be filled to the brim.
1. a high degree of pleasure or enjoyment; joy; rapture: She takes great delight in her job.
2. something that gives great pleasure: The dance was a delight to see.
–verb (used with object)
3. to give great pleasure, satisfaction, or enjoyment to; please highly: The show delighted everyone.
–verb (used without object)
4. to have great pleasure; take pleasure (fol. by in or an infinitive): She delights in going for long walks in the country.
I am challenged to really get pumped, joy-filled and pleased only by God's Word. His Word never lies so we must be able to enjoy His Word like it says we can and be blessed by it too. So many things want to take our time (such as the internet) away from the Word of God but I know we must fight for joy. The question still remains "Am I delighting in and finding pleasure in the Word of God like I should be?" Maybe we can't conjure up this joy ourselves, this necessary delight and we must ask the Lord for hunger and thirst for Himself so that we can be filled to the brim.
